I booted up VS2010 today…

And I’m still waiting for it to load.  Even though I love all of Visual Studio’s features, my god, I forgot how big and heavy it is.  Having a light IDE and a system where I don’t need to create a new project (several more minutes) to just scribble some code like python has is nice.

Though I have faith that IDEs like VS will evolve somewhat more rapidly going forward, we’ll see if they get larger and more monolithic, or more feature-rich but componentized.